LeCroy PCIe 3.0 Complete Testing Solution
One: The main composition
SDA 820Zi-A oscilloscope, network analyzer, perception receiver, transmitter tolerance tester, protocol analyzer, etc.
II: Functions and Features
The only end-to-end complete test solution from transmitter to transmitter, channel testing to receiver testing, physical layer testing to protocol layer testing
LeCroy's most comprehensive protocol-aware test suite and solution for the PCI Express® 3.0 (PCI® 3.0) specification, an integrated set of measurement and debugging solutions, including physical layer transmitter and receiver test items, TDR/S- Parametric test equipment and protocol analyzer platform. This suite of advanced test suites fully meets the needs of serial data testing, which is unique to the traditional PCI Express 3.0 specification that puts new requirements in place for traditional physical layer testing tools. Not only is the specification required that the receiver tester needs to be protocol aware, some of the features of some other PCI Express 3.0 specifications, such as dynamic equalization, also require a combination of physical/protocol-layer testing capabilities to verify debug. LeCroy can provide all these functions and combine the most widely used physical layer, protocol layer, and network analysis tools to complete the PCI Express 3.0 transmitter, receiver, and channel test.
PCI Express 3.0 test suite uses the SDA 820Zi-A oscilloscope for transmitter testing; receiver testing is performed by the PeRT3 Phoenix protocol-aware receiver and transmitter tolerance tester; S-parameters and TDR testing is performed by the SPARQ signal integrity network analyzer Protocol analysis is performed by various protocol analyzers and experimental instruments that support single-channel x16 bandwidths, data rates from 2.5GT/s to 8GT/s, and the industry's most abundant interpolating probes.
The advantages of the LeCroy PCI Express 3.0 test suite
The PIC Express 3.0 transmitter signal integrity and transmitter preset tests require a data rate of 8 Gb/s and require 20 GHz of bandwidth for the fifth harmonic capture. A 4-channel, 20-GHz bandwidth SDA 820Zi-A oscilloscope with unmatched signal fidelity becomes the ideal instrument for this test. In addition, SDA 820Zi-A can easily complete key tests of PCIe 3.0, such as multi-channel qualitative analysis and dynamic link equalization.
Test engineers can use the ProtoSyncTM and PCIe decode annotation tools to discover protocol-level DLLP transmissions, physical layer response, windowing of eye diagrams, changes in location link training, and state machine diagrams. ProtoSync running on a LeCroy oscilloscope is the only device that can simultaneously capture frame-level CATCTM protocol views and their associated physical layer signals. This function combines the strict hardware field testing with software engineers to speed up debugging of incurable diseases.
The unique PeRT3 Phoenix uses 3-tap solution enhancement to simulate transmitter equalization presets, providing seamless transmission between 8b/10b and 128b/130b codecs, and includes a complete jitter profile. Protocol-aware functions are critical to the needs of transmitter link-level equalization tests, receiver link-balancing tests, and receiver jitter tolerance tests.
LeCroy's PeRT3, PCIe decode annotations, and ProtoSync toolset can directly verify the 500ns equalizer response time, including visual view evidence of timing and communication during phase equalization.
Transmitters, receivers, channels and crosstalk measurements can be done by LeCroy SPARQ. These tests include: Tx and Rx Return Loss, Qualitative Analysis of Interrupt and Calibration Channels, Receiver Return Loss, 5GT/s, and 8GT/s Channel Conformance Tests. SPARQ is a new generation of instruments; signal integrity network analyzers. SPARQ, abbreviated as "Rapid S-parameter," is a TDR/TDT analyzer that can measure 40 GHz, 4-port S-parameters with a single button at a fraction of the cost of a VNA.
The Summit T3-16 Protocol Analyzer captures, decodes, and displays PCI Express 3.0 protocol communications between the root complex and end devices, and uses dynamic equalization to describe the system's plug-in probe auto-calibration.
The Summit Z3-16 Protocol Tester can generate PCI Express 3.0 traffic up to x16 channels similar to a simulated root complex or terminal. Engineers can test connection stability, speed/channel size/ LTSSM state changes, DLLP and TLP transaction processing layers. Capture PCI Express 3.0 traffic using the Summit T3-16 protocol analyzer and playback data from cornered devices on the Summit Z3-16 analyzer.